late night posting means it's late night time for me to write random mini essays about my taro. and half the time, and this time--about umbrax, wowowow!!!
i don't know, i've been getting the opportunity to write umbrax a lot lately--on discord at least--in regards to plots and how it really effects taro, and it's like--it's detrimental! which this shouldn't much be a surprise...umbrax even in the comic it's based off of, is shown to be a literal living plague on people with emotion, drawing emotions out and twisting them.
although on the whole my rewrite doesn't include many of the original concepts of the comic it was introduced in--i do still think it fits very well that something that is clearly outside of the emotional light spectrum would have an adverse effect to emotions, especially intense ones or those relating to the cosmic sense. for taro it's an odd spot of--and this is why they at least work most the time as a container--being fully emotionless. yet umbrax is still inside of them, it's still--however intentionally--almost mirroring taro the same way a shadow is casted off of a object. it might look somewhat like them, it might do the same things as them--you wave your hand and your shadow also waves its hand--but it's not really understanding why or how...it's just a cast.
umbrax, when it is awake--which is only under very very very rare circumstances--acts as a cast to taro. it's almost like a possession, it's almost like there's something else there...but in the end it's just a cast, it's just what looks and talks like them in their body. it's a puppeteer that doesn't know what a puppet is.
i don't know, it's a fascinating thing to think about because i really don't think umbrax is inherently bad. or good, for that matter. it's a cosmic entity, it's an eldritch thing that exists as a cast in the first place of a fragment of the source wall. all it is, is a reflection upon a reflection upon a reflection. it is outside of what is seen, yet when it is seen, it effects everything around it because it doesn't belong because it isn't ... meant to be seen.
it's all a matter of the whole incomprehensible thing, the paradoxical nature of cosmic entities like umbrax. it exists, and through it's existence things are effected. not purposefully, just because it is, things are and they happen.
it does tie in really well already with the theming of taro that i mentioned in the previous study post. they aren't good, they aren't bad. umbrax isn't good, it's also not bad. it just is, they both just are. it is a factor in the original umbrax comic that umbrax--the ultraviolet lantern ring--all of that, isn't necessarily bad. it can be used for both good and bad, it's just a matter of how it is comprehended, how its used. and i really do like that. it's one of the few things i keep from the original comic, even if i retcon most of the events of that comic to have not happened yet, at least in reference to umbrax.
it makes sense, in a way, for an emotionless machine that reflects the want to learn, to carry and contain an entity that is beyond known emotion that simply exists as a cast. taro is an empty shell ... except they aren't. they have something that is 'empty' inside of them, that rests, that sleeps, that impacts when it is rustled, but otherwise remains empty.
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if this was the only thing we got for umbrax just this one page i'd be satisfied because it's literally just the idea of this thing that is cosmic that is fundamentally wrong or fundamentally something that the emotional mind Doesn't Like. but it's small. it's tiny, it's a single light in a room of shadow and it's like. when you realize. the shadow of the room is what umbrax looks like. the little fragment is the projector. and all you can think to do is to seal it away. and it should remain sealed, or face the spread of an entity that is always with you, waiting, with an intention you cannot understand because it doesn't think in the way that you do. it doesn't think at all. it just is.
